The main reading of those classes is my own book: The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization.
POSTS/ARTICLES
A good example of how to criticize and redesign a flawed chart
Robert Kosara/EagerEyes
Visual encoding
Michael Dubakov
On the differences between information-data-scientific visualization(s)
Sheila Pontis
Data visualization for human perception
Stephen Few
The 8 hats of data visualization design
Andy Kirk
How to become a data visualization expert: A recipe
Enrico Bertini
How to choose your graphic: Graphic Cheat Sheet
Billion Dollar Graphics
Storytelling with data
Jonathan Corum
How to choose the right chart
Carla Uriona
A survey of powerful visualization techniques, from the obvious to the obscure
Jeff Heer, Mike Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky
A taxonomy of visualization types
Duke University
The Narrative Eros of the Infographic
Reif LarsenA taxonomy of visualization types
Duke University
The Narrative Eros of the Infographic
Infographics and visualizations as tools for the mind
Alberto Cairo
Bringing infographics and visualization to the mainstream
Alberto Cairo
Ending the infographic plague
Megan McArdle
A Quick Illustrated History of Visualization
DataArt
Interaction design for data visualizations
Lars Grammel
The Science of Information Visualization
Robert Kosara
How Much Data Do You Really Need?
Robert Kosara
The Explanatory Power of Data Points
Robert Kosara
The Three Types of Chart Junk
Robert Kosara
Using data visualization to find insights in data
Gregor Aisch
About Nigel Holmes
Robert Kosara
Interviews with Edward Tufte: one, and two
A history of dishonest Fox Charts
MediaMatters
Visualizing Social Facts: Otto Neurath's ISOTYPE project
Frank Hartmann
When maps shouldn't be maps
Matt Ericson
William Playfair and the Psychology of Graphs
Ian Spence
Droughts on deadline
Kevin Quealy
Using indexed charts to represent change
Chandoo
The future of data visualization
Drew Skau
10 things you can learn from The New York Times' data visualizations
Andy Kirk
How Governments can better use data visualization
Jon Schwabish
Fast thinking and slow thinking visualization
Spatial Analysis
Tower Graphics
Lulu Pinney
The process of creating data visualizations
Jan Willem Tulp
Data art vs. data visualization: Why does a distinction matter?
Stephen Few
Data visualization: Clarity of Aesthetics (part 1, part 2, part 3)
Ben Jones
Stacked area chart vs. Line chart – The great debate
Andy Kriebel
Word Clouds considered harmful
Jacob Harris
How to display headlines and intros in graphics
Storytelling with data
The case for horizontal bar graphs
Storytelling with data
(Now, a few about data journalism)
Computational Journalism reading list
Jonathan Stray
Open data journalism
Simon Rogers
IT professionals in the newsroom
George Wright
Speaking of Graphics: An Essay on Graphicacy in Science, Technology and Business
Paul J. Lewi
PRESENTATIONS/VIDEOS/PODCASTS
What makes a good data visualization? With Manuel Lima, Kaiser Fung, Jonathan Stray, and others
Me, one and two (listen to all the other ones, by the way)
Kevin Quealy
Noah Iliinsky (who is author of a nice intro to visualization)
Amanda Cox
Simon Rogers
Hans Rosling
Kim Rees
Bas Broekhuizen
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Besides my own The Functional Art, see List 1 and list 2
Visualization Design and Analysis: Abstractions, Principles, and Methods, by Tamara Munzner (draft for upcoming book).
The Form of Facts and Figures: Design Patterns for Interactive Information Visualization, MA dissertation by Christian Behrens.
Also, see this impressive series of books by Rune Petterson, downloadable for free.
Rafe Donahue's Fundamental Statistical Concepts in Presenting Data is great, as well.
SOME BLOGS TO FOLLOW
In no particular order. I've just copied them from my RSS reader in the way they are (un)organized in there. Copy and paste in your browser:
http://visualisingdata.com/
http://eagereyes.org
http://flowingdata.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog
http://vizwiz.blogspot.com/
http://infosthetics.com/
http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/
http://blog.visual.ly/
http://www.xocas.com/blog/en/
http://michaelbabwahsingh.com/
http://feltron.tumblr.com/
http://thedailyviz.com/
http://thewhyaxis.info/
http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/
http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/
http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/
http://blogs.forbes.com/naomirobbins/
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
http://fellinlovewithdata.com/
http://well-formed-data.net/
http://chartsnthings.tumblr.com/
http://lulupinney.co.uk
http://dataremixed.com/
http://storiesthroughdata.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/
http://www.interactive-infographics.com/
How good stuff and organized. Thanks =D
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This resource helps you to promote your info graphics for free.http://www.graphs.net/201211/100-websites-to-submit-market-your-infographic-for-free.html
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This is an excellent list of sources and blogs. Happily, I was already following the majority of the blogs via RSS before I saw this, and now, your blog is also in my RSS feed! Coincidentally, a critique by my school Info Tech class of an 'infographic' - which it isn't - recently appeared in Junk Charts (http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2012/11/budding-graphics-connoisseurs-from-down-under.html).
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-- Stephen Matthews (@srmdrummer)
It is really nice that you're teaching your students good information design practices, Stephen!
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Thank Cairo professor excellent and interesting material. Beatriz
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ReplyDeleteThank you for editing this remarkable list. So many people have put their minds to this problem in recent years! I will use this for teaching my Information Architecture/Interaction Design students at Media Lab/Helsinki and UArts Philadelphia in the coming months.
I want to also recommend Joel Katz's recent books, "Designing Information,Human Factors and Common Sense in Information Design" (http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Information-Factors-Common-Design/dp/111834197X) to everyone working in the field. Katz's book focuses on the principals and practice of information design -- the heart and soul of any successful information graphic -- using hand-crafted two-page spreads to synthesize the ideas and techniques we all need to get our messages across. It is a great compliment to the sources you have collected here.
Thank you all for your comments. Paul, I wrote a short note about Katz's book. It's a good one indeed. You can find it here:
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Thanks Prof Cairo for clarity and simplicity in your book. Appreciate the reading list as wells as those from your colleague Stephen Few. More journalists should be willing to relearn and acquire new tools of informing and educating to elicit change for a better society through application of data visualization. The risk lies in the myriad of SEO tricks on data visualization which can sully the process even while increasing awareness. I am extremely grateful to you and others like Stephen Few who are weeding through and clearing the pathways so students can get to the good stuff quickly. Great comprehensive list by Stephen Few as well.
ReplyDeleteI love this list - thank you for sharing. So far (and I haven't read them all) my favorite resources are the Cheat Sheet, 10 things you can learn from New York Times visualizations and How to become a data viz expert: A recipe. Of course I still have a lot more reading to do and looking forward to it!
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